A resident of Ambedkar Nagar, a low-income settlement in the shadows global software companies in Whitefield neighborhood, walks past a row of empty barrels used to store water, in Bengaluru, India, Monday, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
Laborers work to drill a borewell for groundwater in Bengaluru, India, Monday, March 11, 2024. Groundwater, relied on by over a third of the city's 13 million-strong population, is fast running out. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
Residents of Ambedkar Nagar, a low-income settlement in the shadows of global software companies in Whitefield neighborhood, collect potable water from a private tanker in Bengaluru, India, Monday, March 11, 2024. Water levels are running desperately low, particularly in poorer regions, resulting in sky-high costs for water and a quickly dwindling supply. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
A cow grazes in dried up Pattandur Agrahara Lake in the Whitefield neighborhood of Bengaluru, India, Monday, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
A resident of Ambedkar Nagar, a low-income settlement in the shadows of global software companies in Whitefield neighborhood, draws water from a sump inside her house in Bengaluru, India, Monday, March 11, 2024. Bengaluru is witnessing an unusually hot February and March, and in the last few years, it’s received little rainfall in part due to human-caused climate change. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
Potable water is loaded into a private water tanker from a temporary pond created to store groundwater later to be sold at high costs to offices and apartments, in Bengaluru, India, Monday, March 11, 2024. Water levels are running desperately low, particularly in poorer regions, resulting in sky-high costs for water and a quickly dwindling supply. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
A motorist rides with his family past the stacked empty drinking water cans to be transported for refilling in Bengaluru, India, Monday, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
A resident of Ambedkar Nagar, a low-income settlement in the shadows of global software companies in Whitefield neighborhood, walks past the empty water cans outside her house in Bengaluru, India, Monday, March 11, 2024. Bengaluru is witnessing an unusually hot February and March, and in the last few years, it’s received little rainfall in part due to human-caused climate change. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
Water leaks from a private tanker en route to deliver the potable water to customers of a residential area in Bengaluru, India, Monday, March 11, 2024. Water levels are running desperately low, particularly in poorer regions, resulting in sky-high costs for water and a quickly dwindling supply. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
Barrels filled with water are covered with blankets to prevent them from the heat in a low-income settlement of Whitefield neighborhood, in Bengaluru, India, Monday, March 11, 2024. Bengaluru is witnessing an unusually hot February and March, and in the last few years, it’s received little rainfall in part due to human-caused climate change. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
A woman carries home pots filled with potable water collected from a private tanker in Bengaluru, India, Monday, March 11, 2024. Bengaluru is witnessing an unusually hot February and March, and in the last few years, it’s received little rainfall in part due to human-caused climate change. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
A laborer climbs out after digging a temporary pond which will be used to store groundwater later to be sold at high costs to offices and apartments, in Bengaluru, India, Monday, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
Residents of Ambedkar Nagar, a low-income settlement in the shadows of global software companies in Whitefield neighborhood, collect potable water from a private tanker in Bengaluru, India, Monday, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
A resident of Ambedkar Nagar, a low-income settlement in the shadows of global software companies in Whitefield neighborhood, collects potable water from a private tanker in Bengaluru, India, Monday, March 11, 2024. Bengaluru is witnessing an unusually hot February and March, and in the last few years, it’s received little rainfall in part due to human-caused climate change. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
High-rise residential buildings housing thousands of people facing water crisis stand in Whitefield neighborhood of Bengaluru, India, Monday, March 11, 2024. Water levels are running desperately low, particularly in poorer regions, resulting in sky-high costs for water and a quickly dwindling supply. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
S. Prasad, who lives with his wife and two children in a housing society, is reflected in the mirror as he shows the tap with no running water inside his apartment, in Bengaluru, India, Monday, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)